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Should've just taken a picture of the curve


That's the first thing any of us would do after discovering your vehicle was wrongfully toed.

Now pick a political party, a news network, and bumper sticker and start getting mean.

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You mean "curb" and "towed"? C'mon....

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Haha, yeah, he DID mean it, curb and towed. No offense to the OP but its possible that either English isn't his first language or he isn't very well familiar with how some of those road and vehicle related terms are spelled.

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did you see his phone??

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Yeah, haha, it was an older type of flip mobile with also no digital camera and the man himself was also a bit old-fashioned.

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LOL. You have obviously never lived in a Latin America country. Police and bureaucrats get paid a pittance and have to make up a living wage by other means. Plus public services are often franchises (as the car-towing was in this section) with politicians taking their cut. Similarly in the "Car Accident" segment. If you are rich and/or have family connections you walk (even for murder in the country where I live). If you are a nobody, no amount of evidence in your favor will clear you.

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That "nobody" guy himself didn't seem that short of money. He did however, for all the maybe perhaps flaws in the system in his country that he lived in, seem arrogant, full of self-confidence and in that segment at least, he probably didn't even HAVE any evidence in his favour but he actively believed he did.

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Also, I understand that his character was indeed stressed and possibly to an extent arrogant by nature. But still...

When he first came to that car towing company, he was acting like he was the one who was all boss and who was officially and de-facto wronged by the system.

Openly and outright referring to the employees working there as "criminals" including by virtue of simply "working for criminals". Demanding an apology. Even when that guy he meets first wasn't being all polite he was like "don't use that tone of voice with me!" etc and making rather unrealistic demands about compensation as well as stating "facts" that because he believes he has a case and that maybe the line wasn't painted properly, then all those who work there are wrong, idiots, money grabbers etc. Basically handling the situation as poorly as he does.

He could've at least for instance maybe ask for further help or seek advice from his friends, maybe even did research himself as later advised on parking spaces and whatnot, maybe get a digital camera to take a picture of the curve if he believed he has a case etc.

But then he went mad and started attacking the place with a fire extinguisher and then blowing the towing car company at least slightly via that car explosion etc.

Its like he was consumed by his own arrogance. And it wasn't an outright FACT that those people towing cars, as frustrating as it may be for him, are criminals and that for instance they simply took advantage of him by say not allowing him to prove that the curb wasn't painted and explain correctly that by law and road rules he still had to pay and that he had no chance of simply avoiding the payment, right? Maybe they could've also checked the line and say "Sorry sir, the line was fine, it was simply an officially no parking spot etc".

Plus, when he also asked to speak to the superior and that employee told him "There isn't one" and he responded with "Oh, so you're the f*cking president, right?" - the employee could'

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could've also maybe stated, that the superior is either gone OR - if he WAS here, he will tell you the exact same thing, and that he and others who are working here are all legitimate employees who KNOW the rules and that they don't just cheat drivers for the sake of doing so.

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Plus, I kind of gotten the impression from that scene and how it all later played out...

That the vehicle towing incident just hurt his ego. And he probably DID know or SUSPECT he couldn't park there but sincerely hoped no one would notice. They probably towed his vehicle entirely correctly though and the lack of painting in the line was probably not sufficient enough as a reason to allow him to park his vehicle there. And he thought he could talk and shout them over into not paying the actual fine but they refused entirely to kowtow to his demands and indulge him.

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